Turpentine-cup.



l E. A. MoKoY.

'IUBPENTINE GUP. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1907.

7 942,210, Patented Dea. 7, 1909.

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I attenua# EDWIN ANDERSON IVICKOY, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

TURPENTINE-CUP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led June 10, 1907.

Patented Dec. 7, 1909.

Serial No. 378,204.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN ANDERSON Mo- KoY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain :new and useful Improvements in Turpentine- Cups; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to means for collecting sap, especially pitch for turpentine manufacture, and has for an object to provide an apron of improved construction adapted to be attached to a turpentine bearing tree.

A further object of the invention is to provide an apron having one or more slots formed longitudinally thereof and through which the sap may enter a receptacle therebeneath.

l/Vith these and other objects in View, the

invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure l is a view of the device in side elevation applied to a turpentine bearing tree. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of one embodiment of the improved apron. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of an apron similar to Fig. 2 with the slots omitted.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The apron forming the subject-matter of this application comprises a substantially plain portion 10 preferably provided with upturned flanges 11 at its opposite ends and with the slots l2 cut therethrough when such slots are found desirable. The a ron is provided with any improved form o upper or long edge as the concave 13, whereby such edge conforms substantially to the periphery of the tree.

The flanges 11 are provided substantially mid-way with means for suspending a cup, such means embodying the notches 14 cut in said flanges, as shown particularly in Figs. 2 and 3. Y

For use in association with the apron above described a receptacle 15 is preferably employed having its opposite ends 17 provided with upstanding arms 18 which are preferably formed integral with the said ends and with hooks 19 adapted to hook into the notches 14 to so position the receptacle beneath the apron that practically the entire area of the receptacle is covered by such apron.

As shown in Fig. l it will-be seen that the receptacle being substantially covered by the apron sap will drip from the lower edge into the side of the bucket or receptacle, whereas if slots 12 are provided as shown in Fig. 2, the major portion of such sap will drip through the slots into the receptacle before reaching the edge of the apron. The object of providing the receptacle proportioned to be covered substantially by the apron is to prevent chips and other extraneous matter from falling into the receptacle, especially while fresh wood is being exposed by chopping the bark. It is well known that there are a large number of different rades of turpentine, such grades depending very largely, if not exclusively, upon the amount of extraneous matter contained in the pitch at the time of boiling, such extraneous matter changing notonly the consistency and properties of the turpentine, but the color as well. Notwithstanding the desirability of covering` the receptacle it is, of course, absolutely necessary that the apron surface be exposed as a considerable portion of the pitch or sap does not run down the tree onto the apron but drops in large drops from the fresh wood above the apron directly upon the apron without following the course of the wood from the cut to the apron. It is, therefore, as before explained, necessary that the apron be exposed to catch the dripping sap and to conduct it to the receptacle. By the employment of an apron provided with the slots, as shown in Fig. 2, the bark, chips and other extraneous matter is caught upon the apron but slides therefrom and is discharged from the edge rather than into the receptacle below.

While the apron shown at Figs. 2 and 3 is provided with concave upper edges it is to be understood that the utility of the invention is not dependent upon such curved edge as edges of different conformations may be employed, as found desirable in practice.

What I claim is 1. In a device of the class described, an apron provided with an opening extending longitudinally thereof.

2. In a device of the class described, an apron provided with a slot extending longi-Y tudinally thereof.

3. In a device of the class described, an apron provided with flanges formed at its opposite ends, and a slot extending longitudinally of the apron and between the anges.

4. In a device of the class described, an apron provided with a longitudinally eX- tending slot, and a receptacle adapted to be suspended from the apron and beneath the slot.

5. In a device of the class described, an apron, flanges formed upon opposite ends of the apron, a slot formed longitudinally of the apronand between the flanges, and a receptacle proportioned to be suspended from the flanges and beneath the slot.

G. A device of the class described including an inclined supporting apron having a discharge opening and provided with oppositely disposed guide fianges, and a receptacle depending from the apron at said discharge opening.

7. A device of the class described including a supporting ineinber having one longitudinal edge thereof curved inwardly and its opposite edges bent upwardly to forni spaced guide lianges, there being a discharge opening formed in the supporting ineinber, and a receptacle detachably secured to the supporting inelnber beneath the discharge opening.

8. An apron having upturned flanges at opposite ends, and receptacle-engaging notches formed intermediate the ends of the flanges.

In testiinony whereof I aiiix iny signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDIVIN ANDERSON MCKOY.

Witnesses A. VIZARD, Jr., E. IVOOD. 

